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Butte Miner SHE LIVED IN GREAT FALLS Mary MacLane Went to School in that City for Six Years The Helena Record has discovered the fact that the erratic Butte authoress, whose name is on every tongue, formerly lived at Great Falls. A telegram from that place says: Mary MacLane, the authoress, once lived in Great Falls. She attended the north side school here for six years. The family came to this city fron Canada and the mother was married to H. G. Klenze, a mining and rat-trap man. The Klenze family, together with little Mary, lived in the brick house, 1110 Third avenue north, next to the Frank Coombs residence. There were two girls in the family, including little Mary, and three boys. The children all went to school and no traces of insanity were evidenced about any of them. The only queer thing about the family at the time of their residence here was the father, and his hallucinations took the shape of automatic rat-traps. He would work day and night upon one of his inventions and then make an excursion through the city exhibiting its points to the general public. At that time gophers were very plentiful and Klenze made an automatic gopher trap with a swinging arm which caught them coming and going' and was reckoned a worldbeater, as gopher decimaters go. Mr. Klenze also developed a mania for the incorporation of mining companies, and it was said that after he had left the city that his companies paid better than his rattraps, and were fully as instructive to those who were given experience. Five years ago the family left for Butte, but Jack MacLane, a brother of little Mary, has lived here much of the time since, and was one of the baseball amateur champions. He is at present in the marine service, and was a member of Company F, of Butte, during the time the First Montana was in the Phillipines.
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